Tragedy in Italy: Survivors say more than 20 migrants were forced to jump overboard before sinking

add 62 corpses so far recovered from the sinking of the Turkish ship which in the early hours of this Sunday collided with some rocks and stranded on a beach in Calabria. There are 81 survivors and the certainty that the list of dead will exceed one hundredbecause the testimonies ensure that about 200 people from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria were traveling in the twenty-metre Turkish wooden “hunt”.

According to the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières, the boat that left five days ago with 177 people on board.

If this figure is accurate, excluding the 81 survivors and the 62 bodies already recovered, there would be 34 other people missing. But some of those who managed to bail out said there were more people on board.

The testimony of a woman survivor, collected by a Catholic organization that collaborates in the tasks of the shipwreck, casts more doubts on the number of missing: “When we were 500 meters from the beach, the traffickers who managed the ship saw some lights and believed that were the police.They decided to escape but needed speed with less weight and they threw more than twenty people into the sea.”

During those maneuvers, the ship ended up hitting some rocks and blasting 150 yards off the beach. One half of the “fighter” broke off and sank. “Nobody was rescued there,” said another witness.

In the hospital where the wounded were hospitalized (one is very serious in intensive care), a young woman who was able to swim said she felt “a loud noise and the boat broke in half going onto a rock.”

“I was hugging my husband and in an instant we were at sea. I never saw my husband again,” she added. One of the police officers involved in the rescue said her husband was found dead on the beach.

Another testimony of the disaster was that of Alef and her husband, who said they first paid 2,500 euros and another 2,500 on boarding. Which she added, in total, about ten thousand euros for the two of them. You also argued that some had to pay €8,000 per person.

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the Italian authorities eThey managed to identify two suspected traffickers who were trying to flee. One of them is Turkish. They will be tried by the criminal court of Crotone, the Calabrian city which is about twenty kilometers from the site of the disaster.

The scenes that horror has left

Between of the 62 dead there are 14 children. Two of them were twin brothers. A child was found on the beach. Three more floated in the water.

A rescue volunteer said that Sunday morning, when the human disaster left by the tragedy that occurred at 4:40 in the morning was discovered, he witnessed “a spectacle that broke his heart”: that of two mothers, one with visibly fractured noses, who walked along the beach shouting for their children, who they could not find

THE the search operations extend for about twenty kilometers along the Calabrian coast, coordinated by the Port Authority of Crotone and the Coast Guard. Some planes and helicopters are also involved, while divers are working on the site of the wreck, where half of the Turkish wooden ship sank.

While the controversy between the government and the opposition is rising in Italy, next week in Brussels, capital of the European Union of 27 countries, the interior and foreign ministers will meet jointly to discuss the situation.

To the “Mediterranean cemetery”, which in ten years has caused more than 26,000 deaths, there is no other solution than for the European Union to collectively adopt a capillary policy to control flood immigration which risks increasing more rapidly in the coming years of now.

Rome, correspondent